Cotter mayor declines to break second tie on B&B ordinance

Hammack breaks tie for disc golf in park

11:13 PM,
Aug. 23, 2013

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At Cotter City Council's Thursday meeting, Mayor Peggy Hammack took hold of one tied vote and broke it in favor of allowing a disc golf course to be set up in Big Spring Park. She said she voted to allow it to take place on the condition there be an agreement with the city and for a designated time.

Then, later in the meeting, the mayor let a second tied vote go unresolved by abstaining from voting. That issue was the first reading of the new bed and breakfast ordinance, which Hammack noted had been "in the making for many months." Hammack added that since the vote to consider the new ordinance ended with ...